A Conservative white paper in 1944 suggested ideas for ‘free’ and ‘comprehensive healthcare – but it was Labour that took the advantage.
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To avoid ineffective treatments, we need a new way to identify and reduce questionable care. A new Grattan Institute report shows how to do it.
If you present to a hospital on the weekend, you have a higher chance of dying than if you present during the week. This is known as the “weekend effect”.
Home births are on the up but hospitals still matter.
If the relationship between the government and the medical profession is the ‘politics of the double bed’, then this couple are in a rocky patch.
Discharging hospital patients sounds easy so why do we get it so wrong?
State and territory leaders will meet in Sydney today to nut out solutions to health and education funding gaps. But what exactly is the problem they’re hoping to address?
Antibiotic resistance is pressing issue in medicine but the extensive use of antibiotics in farming is part of the problem.
Any health reform proposals should start by addressing public hospitals and chronic care. But successful change in these areas requires getting the state-Commonwealth funding and incentives right.
More nurses and higher education levels - not a change in values - are needed if nursing in Britain is to regain its world-leading status.
Research suggests that physician-led hospitals do better, so let’s have more of them please.
Families could ease burden of dementia in hospitals but politicians are scared to propose it for fear of branding NHS a ‘failure’.
A lot has happened to the NHS since 2010. As a new parliament approaches, which of these have been most critical to the future?
In a high-pressure surgical environment, where older male consultants dominate, and there is great competition for training positions and jobs, women are vulnerable to sexual harassment.
The Commonwealth appears to have its health outlays more or less under control. The problem for the states, however, is dire.
Big organizations don’t always lead to lower costs or better care.
The problems currently crippling the NHS and social care are not happening in a vacuum. The A&E crisis and the critical lack of beds are related to politicians’ love for large-scale, rapid and untested…
“It might do me some good and it won’t hurt to give it a go.” How often have you heard a phrase like this? Most people have naïve optimism about medical care. That’s the finding of a systematic review…
At a ceremony in Townsville today, four people will graduate from James Cook University’s physician assistant program. They will be Australia’s first bachelor’s graduates in that field. This is an important…
Scanning through the media coverage of the major parties’ health policies one could be forgiven for thinking that hospital beds are the key to health. Sure, hospital spending dominates the health budget…
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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State Policy Director, Farley Health Policy Center; Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Professor of Medicine, Monash University
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Policy Head, Research Assets, Sax Institute; Co-Director, Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute, Australian National University
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Chair of Health Services Research, University of Southampton
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Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Michigan
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